Cate and Bronte Campbell have another chance to take the top two spots in an event heading into Barcelona. Only a few hours removed from finishing first and second in the women’s 100 freestyle, the two sisters put up the two fastest 50 freestyle times in the preliminaries of day seven at the 2013 EnergyAustralia Swimming Championships.
Cate qualified first in a time of 24.78 followed by Bronte who posted a time of 24.95. Holly Barratt qualified third in a time of 25.45.
After posting the world’s second fastest time in the 100 breaststroke in the preliminaries of day two Swedish swimmer Jennie Johansson followed that up by having another great swim in the preliminaries of the 50 breaststroke posting a time of 30.82, which is the fourth best result in the world this year.
The fastest Aussie qualifier in the event was Leiston Pickett who recorded a time of 31.37. Lorna Tonks was the second fastest qualifier in the event finishing in a time of 31.78 followed by Samantha Marshall who qualified third in a time of 31.94.
In the men’s 50 backstroke Daniel Arnamnart had the fastest time in the morning qualifying for the semi-final in a time of 25.45. He was followed by Benjamin Treffers who recorded a time of 25.56 with Bobby Hurley qualifying third posting a time of 25.64.
The men’s 1500 freestyle appears to be a young man’s game in the land down under. In the preliminaries of the event six of the eight top qualifiers are in their their teens, with four of the top eight 17 years of age or younger.
17 year old Jordan Harrison qualified first in a time of 15:29.52 followed by another 17 year old Mack Horton who posted a 15:30.16.
18 year old Jarrod Poort qualified third in a time of 15:30.24.
Full results can be found here
Photo courtesy of Swimming Australia / Delly Carr
With thanks to Wikipedia: Nicole Livingstone
1991 FINA World Championships (Perth), 4×100 medley relay, 2nd place Australia (with Linley Frame, Susie O’Neill, Karen Van Wirdum)
1992, 200 m backstroke, set world short course record, Melbourne.
1992 Summer Olympics, 200 m backstroke, Bronze medal.
1996 Summer Olympics, 4 x 200 m freestyle relay, Bronze medal (with Julia Greville, Emma Johnson, Susan O’Neill)
1996 Summer Olympics, 4 x 100 m medley relay, Silver medal (with Samantha Riley, Susan O’Neill, Sarah Ryan)
BTW Linley Frame, who was in that ’91 relay and now 41, competed this week in the 50 Breast and was 9th with a 32.43 and 10th in the 100 Breast with a 1:11.31
I apologize for my ignorance, but I’m curious. The narrators and the male interviewer in the youtube videos, are they famous ex-swimers? Would anybody know who they are? Thank you.
Nicole Livingston/Stevenson – 200 back with maybe a medal in there somewhere. The male commentators were not swimmers
How about the male interviewer (who interviewed the winners of each race), I though he was an ex swimmer?
James M has grown 3cms since London -so that is the 50m improvement maybe.
Unfortunately for him, with what we’ve seen in terms of times in the last 12 months,
21.52 gives about as good of a shot at medalling, as did 21.74 appear to give a year ago.
Yes, this is closer to what I actually wanted to say and I worded it the wrong way.
Magnussen will have chance to medal in 50, but 21.52 may not even win bronze.
21.52 might win bronze..
Cielo underswan OG and was not 100% this year.. but He and Manadou are guys who can go 21.3 or lower on 50., but there is still Adrian on the game..
For now, I think Manadou and Cielo are ahead of the pack. But given some time (maybe this summer or in a couple of years), I think Magnussen can be on their same level. Let’s not forget Magnussen went from a 22.4 to a 21.7, and now he’s at 21.5 low. It’s possible (or in my opinion highly likely) he can get down to 21.3.
Agreed
Will Mag be part of the 4×200 relay?
Remember Cielo and Manadou will focus on 50.. Manadou will swim the 4×100 relay?
Well, I think it’s clear now Magnussen can be a force in the 50 free also. Like I said numerous times before, he should forget about the 200 and focus on the 50-100 free.
Also, that’s a new Aussie textile best isn’t it? I think Sullivan previously owned the record with a 21.7 something.
Scratch that, Magnussen was indeed the Aussie textile record holder before this swim with his 21.74 from last year, unless I missed something.
So here in this AUS trials, he swam PBs in 50 and 200, but almost half second slower than 100 PB.
It’s curious, and it could be that he has not really regained his full confidence in swimming 100.
Not going to lie, this is the most shocking performance of the entire trials.. maybe even more than Campbell in the 100. Had he swum this time in the Olympics, after all his hype, I would’ve even been surprised since it would’ve been SUCH a drop.
i dont think its that he’s lost confidence in the 100. I think its just that his taper is there, which he needs to swim a good 100, but not as much for a good 50. For the 200, he’s put in training for it for the first time ever, and swimming it for the first time in a tapered meet.. and lets face it– he doesnt really kno how to swim it… coming… Read more »
John, I remember specifically last year you said he couldn’t break 22. Anyways, I’m not really surprised by this, he does have the front-end speed to be a force in this event. Aswimfan, he just went 21.52 and you don’t think he can medal? That’s ahead of the Olympic champ and Cielo. Come on, I think you would know better.
Imagine my surprise when he did… and even more his performance today 😛
In retrospect, I dont know why I didnt think he could. He dropped 1.2s in the 100, his 50m should’ve easily been under 22.
That’s what I love about swimming .. we doubt these swimmer and then they make us look like fools lol.
I have to laugh a little bit everytime I read about how certain swimmers are not fully tapered for these big meets. For the most part, its complete BS.
Why is that? You dont think Phelps takes a calculated risk in not peaking at Olympic trials, so he could go faster at the Olympics. The top swimmers generally drop time between their trials and championship meets, but the less established swimmers tend to go the other way around since they blow their best swim to get onto the tea
Whoaa… James Magnussen just went 21.52
I don’t think he will medal in 50 in Barce, but this new top end speed will make breaking 100 WR possible again.